This to me is the elixir of life. Black later admitted that she had a crush on Nicholson from the time they met, although they only dated briefly. He just looked right at you I liked him a lot At the premiere, I saw him out in the lobby afterward and I started crying His career and income skyrocketed.

He said, "I was much sought after. Your name becomes a brand image like a product. I have that creative yearning. Much in the way Chagall flies figures into the air: Also in , he appeared in the movie adaptation of On A Clear Day You Can See Forever , although most of his performance was left on the cutting room floor.

After that, who is there but Jack Nicholson? Television journalist David Gilmour writes that one of his favorite Nicholson scenes from all his films was in this one, when Nicholson slaps his gun on the bar yelling he was the Shore Patrol.

It is that edge that kept Chinatown from becoming a typical genre crime film. From Gittes forward, Nicholson created the persona of a man who had seen it all and was still capable of being wickedly amused.

At the time of the incident, Nicholson was out of town making a film, but his steady girlfriend, actress Anjelica Huston , had dropped by unannounced to pick up some items.

Huston recalled Geimer was wearing platform heels and appeared quite tall. Huston told police the next day, after Polanski was arrested, that she "had witnessed nothing untoward" and never saw them together in the other room.

Nicholson plays an anti-authoritarian patient at a mental hospital where he becomes an inspiring leader for the other patients.

Playing one of the patients was Danny DeVito in an early role. Nicholson learned afterwards that DeVito grew up in the same area of New Jersey, and they knew many of the same people.

The role seemed perfect for Nicholson, with biographer Ken Burke noting that his "smartass demeanor balances his genuine concern for the treatment of his fellow patients with his independent spirit too free to exist in a repressive social structure".

She describes his performance:. Nicholson is everywhere; his energy propels the ward of loonies and makes of them an ensemble, a chorus of people caught in a bummer with nowhere else to go, but still fighting for some frail sense of themselves.

Nicholson plays the role of a journalist, David Locke, who during an assignment in North Africa decides to quit being a journalist and simply disappear by taking on a new hidden identity.

Unfortunately, the dead person whose identity he takes on turns out to have been a weapons smuggler on the run.

The Passenger is an unidealized portrait of a drained man whose one remaining stimulus is to push his luck. Again and again in the movie, we watch him court danger.

It interests him to walk the edge of risk. He does it with passivity, as if he were taking part in an expressionless game of double-dare with life.

How to animate a personality that is barely there. He continued to take more unusual roles. Marlon Brando influenced me strongly. Nicholson has observed that while both De Niro and Brando were noted for their skill as method actors , he himself has seldom been described as a method actor, a fact which he sees as an accomplishment: On the set, Nicholson always appeared in character, and if Kubrick felt confident that he knew his lines well enough, he encouraged him to improvise and go beyond the script.

Nicholson shot a scene with the ghostly bartender thirty-six times. In , he starred as an immigration enforcement agent in The Border , directed by Tony Richardson.

It co-starred Warren Oates , who played a corrupt border official. He can come on the set and deliver, without any fuss, without taking a long time walking around getting into it.

And then if you want him to do it another way on the next take, he can adapt to that too. He and MacLaine played many of their scenes in different ways, constantly testing and making adjustments.

He impressed me in one scene after another; the movie is composed largely of first takes with him. In the Batman movie, Nicholson played the psychotic murderer and villain The Joker.

For his role as hot-headed Col. At first, studio executives at Warner Bros. He played Melvin Udall, a "wickedly funny", [59] mean-spirited, obsessive-compulsive novelist.

In , Nicholson was the first actor to receive the Stanislavsky Award at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival for "conquering the heights of acting and faithfulness".

In Anger Management , he played an aggressive therapist assigned to help an overly pacifist man Adam Sandler. The role earned Nicholson worldwide critical praise, along with various award wins and nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination for supporting actor.

In researching the role, Nicholson visited a Los Angeles hospital to see how cancer patients coped with their illnesses.

It had been widely reported in subsequent years that Nicholson had retired from acting because of memory loss, [65] but in a September Vanity Fair article, Nicholson clarified that he did not consider himself retired, merely that he was now less driven to "be out there any more".

They had one daughter together, Jennifer born September 16, Between April and January , Nicholson had an on-again, off-again relationship with actress Anjelica Huston that included periods of overlap with other women, including Danish model Winnie Hollman, by whom he fathered a daughter, Honey Hollman born From to , Nicholson had a relationship with actress Rebecca Broussard.

They had two children together: For over a year, from to , Nicholson dated actress Lara Flynn Boyle ; they later reunited, before splitting permanently in I give unconditional love.

Warren Beatty also lived nearby, earning the road the nickname "Bad Boy Drive". Nicholson was also a close friend of Robert Evans , the producer of Chinatown , and after Evans lost Woodland, his home, as the result of a s drug bust, Nicholson and other friends of the producer purchased Woodland to give it back to Evans.

In a few instances, Nicholson has engaged in arguments with game officials and opposing players, and even walked onto the court.

Nicholson is a collector of 20th century and contemporary art, including the work of Henri Matisse , Tamara de Lempicka , [86] Andy Warhol and Jack Vettriano.

Nicholson described himself as a "life-long Irish Democrat". I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

The induction ceremony took place on December 15, , where he was inducted alongside 11 other Californians. Only Nicholson s—s , Michael Caine s—s , Meryl Streep s—s , Paul Newman s—s, s—s , Katharine Hepburn s—s, s , and Laurence Olivier s—s have been nominated for an acting lead or supporting Academy Award in five different decades.

Only Katharine Hepburn , with four Oscars, won more. This ceremony marked the eighth time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture , , , , , , , and Nicholson is an active and voting member of the Academy.

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His work is always interesting, clearly conceived, and has the X-factor, magic. Jack is particularly suited for roles which require intelligence.

He is an intelligent and literate man, and these are almost impossible to act. Nicholson is the Hollywood celebrity who is most like a character in some ongoing novel of our times.

He is also the most beloved of stars—not even his huge wealth, his reckless aging, and the public disasters of his private life can detract from this For he is still a touchstone, someone we value for the way he helps us see ourselves.

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My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it.